Crosby's Marketplace Register Tapes for Education Open for New School Year

With the start of the new school year, Crosby’s Marketplace would like to remind parents and students of its Register Tapes for Education (RTFE) program.

Each year, Crosby’s Marketplace participates in RTFE to help raise money for much needed academic equipment. The program works like this: Customers collect grocery receipts from Crosby’s Marketplace, and give the receipts to their school. Once the school deposits receipts into a RTFE program, they are converted into points and redeemed for free equipment and supplies from a program catalog. The catalog features over 3,000 items including pens, pencils, computers, sports equipment, flat screen TVs and much, much more! Plus, additional items are added continually throughout the program!

“We are proud to participate in this program to help provide much needed educational equipment that goes into the classrooms of our customers’ children,” said Jim Crosby, president of Crosby’s Marketplace. “This program is a way of enhancing the education of our youth, and thanking our customers for their shopping loyalty.”

During the most recent academic year, Crosby’s Marketplace stores in Concord, Hamilton, Georgetown, Manchester-By-The Sea, Marblehead, and Salem helped raise a collective $5,500 for nine local schools through RTFE.

Crosby’s Marketplace is a member of the Independent Stores distribution group that provides quality goods and services to grocery retailers. Independent Store retailers raised a collective $21,499 for schools in their communities during the 2013-2014 school year through RTFE.

RTFE is a nationally recognized program that helps grocery retailers administer educational programs to raise funds for their participating area schools to purchase valuable educational equipment. Since 1981, RTFE has provided over $100,000,000 to schools across the country on behalf of grocery retailers. RTFE is offered and administered by Universal Promotions, Inc.

The 2014-2015 program will begin on September 1st. For more information on participation in RTFE please contact your local schools or Bob Vello from Crosby’s Marketplace at 978-745-4272.

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